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Comment by Skelic

As most know, all arcanums can be placed to other peoples head/leg-slot items via Trade Window (Will not be traded-spot). As all enchants except for the self-enchants that bind the items - such as ring-slot enchants.

This is a very nice twink enchant and requires the following materials:

2x Skin of Shadow (drops from Scholomance, usually 1 or more per run)4x Large Brilliant Shard (about 7-12g each in AH and disenchantable from level 51-60 blue items)1x Pristine Black Diamond (world drop highest droprate in Blackrock Depths)1x Libram of Focus (static loot from Dire Maul-trashmobs, top 3 highest droprates are: 1. Eldreth Specte 2. Eldreth Phantasm 3. Residual Monstrosity - they are relatively rare since they are around 1% droprate from each of those mobs, but a rogue/druid can stealthfarm the book simply)

Good luck, heh. lol. Also used for "Savage Guard"-quest, which turns this great item to a useless Head/Leg-slot enchantment that gives +10 Nature Resistance.

Comment by Chaoslux

Even if it gives a useless head enchant, the Savage Guard is a repeatable that gives 500 rep to Zandalar, definetly worth it compared to the other way to get rep which are Bijous (at like 130 rep per turn in) especially when you cant find a tank/healer to 3man it and give you all the bijous

Comment by Iroared

I farmed this yesterday for my toon and I didn't have any of the prerequisites so here is what I had to do, as Horde (the order might not be ideal):

Run to Feralas and grab the Elven Legends quest from Sage Korolusk in the village east of Dire Maul. Go to dire maul, if you do not have the key (Crescent Key) first enter the eastern part (get atlas addon for a handy map), and find Pusillin, a small demon near the entrance (type /target pusillin if you can't find him, then he will be highlighed). Talk to him and he will run away from you, go around the top area, counterclockwise, talking to him again every time you reach him. He will enter a corridor in the northeast corner of the room, run down to another room and go up the stairs. Of course you will fight a bunch of mobs on the way but they don't present any threat to level 80. Talk to him for the last time, kill him and the adds and loot the key.

Now go to the north part (use the key) and go down the stairs to the large field with ogres and hounds. On the left you will see an underground passage, enter it and follow a very long tunnel. You will arrive at a library, go a little bit further and on your left you will see a corpse lying near a bookshelf. Inspect it and the elf nearby will start to talk. After he finishes he will accept your quest and offer you 3 other quests. I only did the arcanum of focus one, others have different requirements.

Now you have to either buy or farm the libram, supposedly it drops from various mobs around Dire Maul; I didn't get any after finishing the north part, and by that time it appeared on the AH. Buy 4x large brilliant shards and1x pristine black diamond, they are usually plentiful on the AH.

Now you have to get 2x skin of shadows. They are found on scholomance mobs, and you will need Skeleton Key. To get it, go to Bulwark on the west edge of Western Plaguelands, and pick up the Scarlet Diversions quest from High Executor Derrington. Grab the box near him, it will give you a torch. Follow the road east, you will see 2 fields on the map. Between them you will see a tent with scarlet mobs around it. Click on the tent, then use the banner. Go turn in the quest and get the All Along the Watchtowers. You will need to go to the ruins south of the road and use the torch in the entrance to each of the towers (it has a 2 minute cooldown). Go back to turn in and get the Scholomance quest. Turn it in to apothecary guy nearby (with ? above him), he will tell you to go back to the ruins and kill skeletons and loot 15 Skeletal Fragments. Go turn in, and now the fun begins. Make sure you have 15 gold and 2 thorium bars on you. Go to gadgetzan (yes, fun). Probably the fastest way to do so is to hearth to dalaran and take the portal to Caverns of Time (unless you're goblin engineer with the teleporter). Find a guy with a ? above him, turn in the quest, he will give you another quest for which you will need to go to Ungoro (not as bad), climb the Fire Plume Ridge, stand right by the lava lake on top of it and use the key mold. Now go back to bulwark (yay), I had to ghetto hearty by joining someone's group, entering zulfarrak and leaving the group.Turn in the quest to the apothecary guy and he will tell you to go kill that lich in the middle of the ruins where you farmed the skeletons. Kill the lich (when you attack him all the mobs around will aggro), loot the thing that appeared and go turn in the quest, finally you will receive the key.

Now you can go to scholomance, it is on the island in the middle of the lake in WPL. Enter the house and open the door on the left to enter. Try to fight only the mobs that attack you to save time. Cross the bridge, open the iron door, you will arrive at a large room with acolytes. Open the iron door on the left, then another one beyond it. Cross 2 rooms and you will arrive at a third room with a bunch of drakes. Cross it (you will get a bunch of drakes on you) and go down the stairs. You will see a small room with a bunch of Risen Constructs and a boss. Kill everything, they will sometimes drop the skins. If you didn't get enough, reset and do it again. I got 2 skins after 3 quick runs.

Congratulations, now go to Dire Maul library and turn in the quest to get the arcanum. You can apply it through the trade window (if your twink is on another account) or if you use the goggles you can apply it while they're not soulbound.

Comment by DrCheis

As of 3.1 this now only works on your own items. It cannot be traded through the "will not be traded" slot.